Beyond Hate Speech and Misinformation: Facebook and the Rohingya Genocide in Myanmar

The case of the Rohingya genocide in Myanmar has increasingly come to illustrate the maximum evil of Facebook and its parent company, Meta. Yet most analyses of this case share a distinctive featur...

Beyond Hate Speech and Misinformation: Facebook and the Rohingya Genocide in Myanmar

The case of the Rohingya genocide in Myanmar has increasingly come to illustrate the maximum evil of Facebook and its parent company, Meta. Yet most analyses of this case share a distinctive featur...

Myanmar: The social atrocity: Meta and the right to remedy for the Rohingya - Amnesty International

Beginning in August 2017, the Myanmar security forces undertook a brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing against Rohingya Muslims. This report is based on an in-depth investigation into Meta (formerly Facebook)’s role in the serious human rights violations perpetrated against the Rohingya. Meta’s algorithms proactively amplified and promoted content which incited violence, hatred, and discrimination against […]

Myanmar: Facebook’s systems promoted violence against Rohingya; Meta owes reparations – new report

Facebook owner Meta’s dangerous algorithms and reckless pursuit of profit substantially contributed to the atrocities perpetrated by the Myanmar military against the Rohingya people in 2017, Amnesty International said in a new report published today.

U.N. investigators cite Facebook role in Myanmar crisis

U.N. human rights experts investigating a possible genocide in Myanmar said on Monday that Facebook <FB.O> had played a role in spreading hate speech there.

Facebook's failure in Myanmar is the work of a blundering toddler

The social network ploughs its way through the world and deals with the consequences later. In Myanmar, that strategy has had deadly consequences

Facebook Destroys Everything: Part 1 - Faine Greenwood

In Southeast Asia in the early 2010s, I watched as Facebook began to destroy Myanmar from the inside out. Here's why I'm never using Threads.

Erin Kissane · Videos · XOXO

Writer/researcher Erin Kissane is working to build better and safer networks for collective survival, with efforts including the COVID Tracking Project, a powerful 40,000 word analysis of Meta’s role in the Rohingya genocide in Myanmar, and current research into the culture and governance of the next wave of social networks.

Rohingya genocide

The Rohingya genocide is a period of ongoing persecutions and killings of the Muslim Rohingya people by the Tatmadaw. The genocide has consisted of two phases to date: the first was a military crackdown that occurred from October 2016 to January 2017, and the second has been occurring since August 2017. From 2024 onward, the Arakan Army has also been accused of participating in abuses against Rohingya Muslims, particularly in areas under its control. The crisis forced over a million Rohingya to flee to other countries. Most fled to Bangladesh, resulting in the creation of the world's largest refugee camp, while others escaped to India, Thailand, Malaysia, and other parts of South and Southeast Asia, where they continue to face persecution. Several countries consider these events ethnic cleansing.

Junta’s Massacres from Sky and Ground: Civilian Protection at Risk in Myanmar - Progressive Voice

The Myanmar military junta has systematically and deliberately carried out mass atrocities against civilians through coordinated aerial bombardments and ground assaults across the country since the attempted coup in February 2021. These acts amount to war crimes[...]

Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar

In March 2017, the United Nations Human Rights Council established the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar (IIFFMM) to establish the facts and circumstances of the alleged human rights violations by military and security forces, and abuses, in Myanmar. The mandate of the IIFFMM ended in September 2019.

Tracking Suspicious Facebook Accounts After Takaichi’s Taiwan Remarks

Inauthentic Facebook accounts amplified anti-Japan narratives in Malaysian media after PM Takaichi’s Taiwan contingency remarks.

Violating own policy, Meta monetized 19 Facebook pages of Bangladeshi law enforcement agencies

Under Meta's own policy, Facebook pages belonging to government agencies and institutions are not eligible for monetization. Yet at least 19 Facebook pages belonging to Bangladesh's law enforcement agencies were found to have access to earning opportunities on the platform. Under Meta's own policy, Facebook pages belonging to government agencies and institutions are not eligible for monetization. Yet at least 19 Facebook pages belonging to Bangladesh's law enforcement agencies were found to have access to earning opportunities on the platform.

Workers from Myanmar speak on daily abuse at Hokkaido farm | The Asahi Shimbun Asia & Japan Watch

SAPPORO—Six Myanmar nationals gave a tearful account here of the daily physical abuse they endured on a farm in Kyogoku, Hokkaido.

Revealed: the huge growth of Myanmar scam centres that may hold 100,000 trafficked people

Operated by crime syndicates and fostered by the country’s military junta, the number of vast complexes such as KK Park on the Thai-Myanmar border has doubled since 2021